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Check out our brand new SALC - Social Activism Learning Community where you get to live in beautiful Mountainview with a special group of like-minded students who are passionate about making their world a better place to live.

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CIW's Big Idea: Feeding a Hungry World and Hungry Minds

"The power of population is so superior to the power of the earth to produce subsistence
for man, that premature death must in some shape or other visit the human race." —Malthus T.R. 1798. An essay on the principle of population. Chapter VII, p61

In the 200+ years since Malthus wrote the population of the earth has grown tremendously,
but so has human capacity to produce food from the earth. But that capacity has relied
upon enormously increased use of fossil fuels for industrial farming, synthetic fertilizers,
and so on, and heightened competition for water for irrigation as well as other uses.
We are transforming the very climate of the earth, with the result that sea-levels
are rising, threatening a great deal of food-producing land in river deltas around
the world. And we are concerned with the safety, nutritive value, and availability
for every one of the foods that are available. Today's students are concerned with
their own well-being, their own healthy nutrition, with the health of the communities
in which they live, with the present and future availability of healthy food in their
community, nation, and world.

College-in-the-Woods is focusing on issues in food production, distribution, good
nutrition, and sustainability with area-based courses, service learning, and a series
of events for the benefit of residents and the larger community. For Fall 2015, we
have a service learning course, CDCI 395, providing opportunities for residents of
CIW to learn about a range of food-related issues while contributing service to the
Southern Tier community.

Our Learning Community for Fall 2015 offers, in addition to CDCI 395, two area-based sections of WRIT 111,
an area-based section of Philosophy 146: Law and Justice, an area-based section of
PoliSci 113, Comparative Politics, and Harp 101: How to Be a Professional.

Find your new home

Life on Campus

Do you want to change the world?

Check out our brand new SALC - Social Activism Learning Community where you get to live in beautiful Mountainview with a special group of like-minded students who are passionate about making their world a better place to live.

Housing sign ups

Housing sign ups for new freshmen and transfer students for the 2015-2016 semesters are now open. Click on the Housing Sign ups button above to fill out your housing preference form.